Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering chaperone is marvelous, and so is Denholm Elliott, blustering common sense as George's father. Daniel Day Lewis as the well-named Vyse is terminally repressed, and Helena Bonham Carter establishes herself here (and in the recent Lady Jane) as one of the screen's most intriguing newcomers. No one plays adolescent petulance better just now; no one better understands the budding young lady's secret of being charming in spite of herself. Only Julian Sands as George has trouble...
...history Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, Shirley Christian tells of a meeting eight months before the fall of President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. Two of President Carter's top Latin American advisers urged that Somoza be forced out quickly to permit creation of a new, moderate government before the Sandinistas could pick up the pieces. Other advisers were opposed, including Robert Pastor of the National Security Council. He recalls, "Pete (Viron Vaky) felt we could and should force out Somoza in the fall of '78, and I felt that we couldn't and shouldn't . . . I felt that Carter should...
...situation; it was of great importance to the U.S. that force not be used; and it would be damaging to U.S. standing in the world if Marcos were treated like the Shah of Iran, who was admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment but was not permitted by the Carter Administration to remain. As it turned out, Marcos was less worried about the fate of the Shah than about what happened to Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President who was assassinated during a 1963 coup. Says one senior American official: "He wanted to make sure he did not leave...
...just as the President was launching his campaign for more defense spending, White House and Defense Department officials scrambled to try to keep the Packard commission from undercutting the President's defense budget crusade. Indeed, a draft by Commission Member James Woolsey, who was Navy Under Secretary during the Carter Administration, vividly depicted Pentagon shortcomings. One passage, for instance, compared stewardship of the Pentagon to the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the master magician's young helper who learned how to start the magic but not how to stop it. But at the insistence of Reagan loyalists...
...Carter Wilkie, a campaign spokesman for StateRep. Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay), said thecandidate had not accepted PAC money, but opposeda cap on either personal or total campaignspending. Vallely, a millionnaire, has contributedat least $71,000 to his own campaign. Wilkie saidVallely had mortgaged his house for $250,000 toraise campaign funds...